Window to Paris Movie Review 1995

East and West meet unexpectedly when a young music teacher (Dontsov) rents a room in St. Petersburg with a secret window that opens onto a Paris rooftop. Loony adventures ensue as Dontsov and his friends escape their dreary existence to exploit the bounties of Western capitalism in this sharp satire of Russian social ills. Relentless humor based on cross-cultural stereotypes wears thin (the Russians are cantankerous drunks; the Parisians, self-important snobs), but it keeps a sunny cast upon what could have been a scathing commentary. Russian and French with subtitles.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS
Running time 92 minutes.
Originally from Russian, French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

France, Russia/USSR, Fantasy, Satire & Parody

Screenplay

Arkadi Tigai, Yuri Mamin

Cast

Serguej Dontsov, Agnes Soral, Viktor Michailov, Nina Oussatova

Director

Yuri Mamin

Music

Aleksei Zalivalov, Yuri Mamin

Producer

Guy Seligmann, Fontaine, Sodaperaga, Sony Pictures Classics